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Nine Inch Nails: Broken

by: Nine Inch Nails

Publication date: 1993

Topics: nine inch nails, peter christopherson, trent reznor

Language: English

Item Size: 3.1G

Title #1, Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 .
Artist: Nine Inch Nails

Video: Broken

Notes: Broken is a collection of music videos from the album of the same name with faux-snuff interludes to tie things together. The video as a whole was a conceived by Trent Reznor and Peter Christopherson - as I understand.

Source: The source of this upload is from Trent Reznor's torrent that he uploaded to thepiratebay years ago. There are 5 files in my upload, 4 are untouched original files - the 2x jpgs, img and txt. I have remuxed (not reconverted = no quality loss) the video, audio, and chapters into an MKV for easy consumption in a post-DVD age. The original interlacing of the source video shows. As this release was sourced / leaked by Trent Reznor himself, it is reasonable to assume an upload here is fair.

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Reviews (8)

Reviewer: harry sturgeon976 - - September 3, 2024
Subject: miss ya lots

bud

Reviewer: funobotlooksatbooks - August 15, 2024
Subject: still not really sure why last was not included in this film

don't really have much else to say other than that

Reviewer: ezra726 - - June 3, 2023
Subject: _

i used to not really like trent reznor, but i think this video and knowing a little bit more backstory into his life has made me much more interested in ...

Reviewer: jacksonclassic - - January 7, 2023
Subject: Glistenfist

666 aren't Mondays the worst

Reviewer: obamiumgodcoolbrothers19 - - October 6, 2020 (edited)
Subject: 10/10

imagine your whole family dying and after a weirdo go to your house and record a clip where a guy gets mutilated and raped by a another guy, veri funi ...

Reviewer: kent manthie - - July 30, 2018 (edited)
Subject: Sleazy's indelible touch is definitely here.

Broken has always been my favorite NIN album - even though it was, technically, an EP - and the fun thing about it was that Reznor was disgusted with his ... then-label, TVT, which had put out his 1st album, Pretty Hate Machine. So just after Jimmy Iovine signed Trent to Interscope (which is, ugh, a corporate label, being a subsidiary of Time Warner, but they at least reserve that label for some of the better stuff that can be less-than-compromising, at best. Oh well, you take what you can get & get the best deal out of it. Really, the fact that it's a "corporate" entity is, well, it sucks for the ability of quality and not just quantity (record sales vs. critical acclaim), but if you're a good enough artist/musician, etc. & can pull off something amazing, having one or 2 previous albums which have already proven that this band is a winner and in cases like that the artist/band can be in a position to dictate the terms which he/she/they want out of the label viz a contract, probably the most important part (that must be in writing, as a clearly stated clause in the contract) of this is the demand of "complete control, PERIOD." and that means the final word on the final cut. Anyway, getting back to this super-cool, underground, snuff-ish film that Reznor collaborated on with the late, great, legendary Sleazy (Peter Christopherson), who was a co-founder of super-influential industrial outfit, Throbbing Gristle, was in the post TG dancier (acid/house, etc) group, Psychic TV and finally, with John Balance (who often went by "Jhonn", though his real name was Geoff Rushton...go figure), Sleazy & Balance were Coil, which was really intense. Very beautiful music and quite haunting, simultaneously. One other thing: Though I don't believe he really did anything that stood out the way Storm Thorgerson or Aubrey Powell's work did, nevertheless, he was made an "associate partner" at the legendary, awesome Hipgnosis firm which made record covers; theirs were probably the most art-worthy, meaning worthy of standing alone in a place like MOMA, etc. Plus they had such a demand for their services that they did a LOT of albums; so many in fact, that I can guarantee you, you have seen Hipgnosis covers, probably many of them; they did many of Led Zeppelin's albums, most of Pink Floyd's, Peter Gabriel's 1st 3 self-titled solo albums, almost all of UFO's album covers, and into the more modern era, they've done some work on at least 2, maybe 3 Muse albums, and there's more. WAY more. So, you can see, Sleazy (RIP), had a real knack for art, for the kind of aggro-industrial stuff which Reznor was into and Reznor, being familiar w/Christopherson, contacted him at his home in Bangkok, where he'd been living as a British expatriate for some years by then and asked him if he'd work w/him on this film to go with the music on the EP he had just done (Broken) and Sleazy who was such a nice, easy-going guy and if he was your friend he was a great friend to have. So when you watch this, remember Sleazy!!

Reviewer: The Nates Motel - - September 11, 2017
Subject: A Clean Copy!!

Thank you!!! Thank you so much for finding this clean copy! I bought the VHS bootleg back in 1996 that I uploaded to here to the archive as well as other ...

Reviewer: The Label Lust - - April 17, 2016
Subject: 1992

Broken was one of the first albums I owned. 2 years old when it came out, 12 when I found the cassette under a school bleacher. At this age I was mostly ...

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